The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-12-22
AN ORDINANCE
To Raise Supplies for the City OF
Anderson for the Year 1883,
and to regulate Licenses there

DE IT ORDAINED, By the Mayor and
Aldermen of the City of Anderson, now
met and sitting in Council, and by the
authority of the same, That Tax, for the
sums and in the manner hereinafter NAM
ed, shall be raised and paid into the public
treasury of the said City, for the use and
purposes thereof
SECTION /. There shall be paid the sum
of Thirty Cents on every one hundred dol
lars worth of Real Estate and Personal
Property, except the Carolina Collegiate
Institute Greeley Institute,and the Church
es in the City, to be used in the current
expenses of said City.
SEC. 2. That in addition to the foregoing
tax levied for current expenses for the use
of said City, there shall be paid the sum OF
Forty.five Cents on every one hundred dol
lars worth of Real Estate and Personal
Property, except the Carolina Collegiate
Institute. Greeley Institute, and the Church.
es in said City, to pay the interest on the
Bonded Debt of Fifty Thousand Dollars in
aid of the Savannah Valley Railroad, and
for Sinking Fund to pay the principal of
said debt, us provided by the Act of the
Legislature, which tax shall be, and is here
by, set apart for the purpose of paying
said interest and reducing said Bonded
Debt, and for no other purpose.
SEC. 8. There shall be Eight Days work
rendered on the Streets of the City. under
the supervision of the Assistant Marshal,
by every able-bodied male person between
the ages of sixteen and fifty years, and
every person may commute the same by
paying to the City Treasurer the sum OF
Four Dollars and every person liable as
above, and failing to discharge such liabili-
ty in the manner directed shall, after
twenty-four hours notice to render the
Eight Days work, or pay the said sum OF
Four Dollars, be tried for such default and
if convicted, be fined in the sum of Five
Dollars, or be imprisoned and required to
work upon the streets for the period OF
Twelve Days.
SEC. 4. There shall he paid by the own
ers tax of Thirty Cents on the one hum
drcd dollars worth of the value Of all Bank
Stocks and that all Fire and Life Insu-
rance Companies, and the Southern EA-
press Company shall be taxed the sum of
Thirty Cents on the one hundred dollars
of the gross receipts collected or received
by their Agents in the City of Anderson,
S. c., during the year 1887.
SEC. 5. There shall be paid in advance
License of not less than Five Dollars, nor
more than one Ono Hundred Dollars per
diem, within the discretion of the Mayor,
by all Itinerant Traders, Auctioneers,
Hawkers or Peddlers offering for sale any
Goods, Wares or Merchandise of any kind
whatsoe ever; Provided, That the provisions
of this Section shall be construed as not to
apply to ordinary dealers in Game, Fruits,
Potatoes or other Country Produce or
Live Stock; and any person violating this
Section, shall, upon conviction thereof, be
fined in sum not less than Five Dollars,
nor more than One Hundred Dollars, or be
imprisoned not less than One Day, nor
more than Thirty Days.
Sec. 6. That every person who owns or
keeps Dog within the corporate limits OF
said City shall pay thereon License Fee
of One Dollar per head, for which the
owner shall receive Collar, with badge
attached, which shall be placed around the
Dogs neck and any Dog found running
at large after the first day of March next
without Collar or badge shall be seized
by the Police and confined for forty-eight
hours, during which time the owner shall
have the right to reclaim him upon the
payment of Two Dollars, and failing to
reclaim said Dog within the time speci-
fed, the Dog shall be killed.
SEC. Z. That all Butchers or dealers in
Fresh Meats shall pay, in advance, into the
City Treasury a License Tax of Fifteen
Dollars per annum, and that License Tax
Of Fifty Cents shall be paid for every Beef
and Twenty-Five Cents for every other ami
NAL retailed within the corporate limits oi
said City, in pieces less than one quarter,
by any person or persons whomsoeyer
except those persons who have paid the
annual License Tax as herein provided
said License shall not. be transferable, and
any person or persons failing or refusing to
pay these Licenses in advance shall, upon
conviction thereof before and by the Mayor
of said City, be fined not less than One
Dollar, nor more than Fifty Dollars, or be
imprisoned in the Guard House not less
than One Day, nor more than Thirty Days,
for such offense.
Sec. s. There shall be paid BY every Liy.
cry or Sale Stable keeper or owner, in ad-
vance. License Tax of Thirty-fve Dollars
per annum, and that tax of Five Dollars
per day shall be paid by every other person
dealing in horses or mules and not selling
from regularly licensed Sale or Feed
Stable. And every person other than n
Livery or Sale Stable keeper shall pay Ii
censc Tax of Five Dollars per annum for
each vehicle kept and used for the transpor-
tation of passengers. And all persons en-
gagged in the Drayage business shall pay in
advance License Tax of Ten Dollars per
annum for a Two-Horse Dray, and Five
Dollars per annum for One-Horse Dray.
Provided, That if more than one Dray be
used by the same person Ten Dollars shall be
paid upon one Dray and Five Dollars upon
each additional Dray. And every person
violating this Section, or any part thereof,
SHALL upon conviction thereof, be fined not
less than One Dollar nor more than One
Hundred Dollars, or be imprisoned not less
than One Day nor more than Thirty Days.
SEC. 9. There shall be paid by every per-